Devialet teaser 11-11-2016 / 'The lost recordings'

[Soniclife]

It was a fun evening, I'm also terrible with names, but the expert ownership was very high in the room.

I'm certain that the golds were not used, just for show, and that the videos (that they have been releasing on Facebook) were played back through the cinemas normal sound system, which explains the extra volume and harsh sound. I think the previews of the other recordings were also played back through the cinemas system, it handled music without vocals better.

Sound quality of the main event was hard to gauge, this was a very high quality domestic system in a very big room, that's set-up was limited, it did surprisingly well considering, vocals were really good, her voice was really good when singing, the spoken bits were less good to me as she was clearly not as close to the mic, the instruments suffered from something, original recording or the big room who knows, there was a lowish frequency resonance that kicked of from time to time that didn't help.

I'm sure the combination of super expensive TT and lacquer was doing an amazing job, but trying to guess the contribution of the lacquer I find impossible, it clearly had a very very low noise floor, but that could be mainly down to the TT or cart for all I know.

It would be interesting to here a needle drop of a lacquer vs the digital original, but I doubt we will every get that privilege.